|a New York, NY : |b HarperFestival, |c c2008.
|a The Berenstain bears and the bad influence / |c Stan & Jan Berenstain with Mike Berenstain. As part of the campaign, Lederle distributed Berenstain Bears stuffed animals and books to every pediatrician's office in the United States.|a DLC |c DLC |d KKM |d LEO |d BTCTA |d BAKER |d ABG |d CQU |d XY4 |d CF8 |d JRS "In the 1980s, the prominent vaccine manufacturer Lederle Laboratories licensed the Berenstain Bears for a promotional campaign encouraging children to get vaccinated. "Beginning in 2008, a number of Berenstain Bears titles of a specifically religious nature have been released by Mike Berenstain.The titles are part of a series called Living Lights and are published by the Christian company Zondervan and HarperCollins."
On creating the bear characters, "Stan also observed that female bears are "terrifyingly good mothers" while the males are "lousy fathers."" Huh! So maybe this dynamic between Mama and Papa is totally baked in. I also went down the rabbit hole and read some history. I also noted that Miranda looks a bit androgynous, a nice change from the "female-presenting bears are known by their house dresses and pink ruffles" aesthetic in the books I've read. Still, I appreciated that new "bad influence" friend Miranda wasn't written off as "bad" in the end, and she and Sister got to clarify that they each had a role in making some bad choices. Though Bear Country has always felt to me like a place out of time (or perhaps just a place permanently in the 1980s), in this book there is a strange mix of cell phones + landlines with handset receivers. The text feels especially long, full of painful bear puns like "Bearbies" (Barbies). The illustrations look like the bears, but lack a certain polish. This title is from 2008, after Stan died and Mike Berenstain was working with his mother on writing and illustrating the books.
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